Join Rachel as we explore how the ADHD is influenced and impacts the family of one's origin. In addition, we will discuss how unconscious stresses growing up, and the frenzied society we live in exacerbate ADHD traits that might otherwise lay hidden. See series page for previous episodes. In this salon, we will discuss Part…
Hi, I am Simon Ohler. After four years of working at Twitch and building a thriving creator community in the German speaking region, I retreated for three years to live and…
Inspired by Elena Ferrante's formidable Neapolitan Quartet, Interintellect founder Anna Gát invites you to dive into the greatest friendships in world literature: Achilles and Patroclus, Romeo and Mercutio, Jayne Eyre and Helen Burns, Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby, and of course Ferrante's Elena and Lila. What can we learn from these tumultuous literary bonds, often…
Progress writer Jason Crawford is writing a book about the modern world and how it was invented. In a series of salons, we will explore this content together, chapter by chapter, and get an inside look at the author’s creative process. Behind the world of our daily lives, there is a hidden world, one that keeps our world…
Interintellect founder Anna Gát continues her series A History of Love with an episode focusing on the period between the Copernican Revolution and the French Revolution. A turbulent time in Europe where basic tenets of social status, theological dogma, and geography are questioned. Many modern concepts - from parliamentary democracy to novel-reading, from city-dwelling to…
Join us to discuss the future of labor organizing with Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta, on the eve of the release of their new book: The Future We Need – Organizing for a Better Democracy in the 21st Century (which we’ll hear about before the book comes out on April 15). Hosted by Siena Chiang,…
How do literature and music interrelate, and how can they enliven each other? Join us for the Words and Sounds series led by Ulkar Aghayeva, Daniel Hass, Lily Rock, Jameel…
Join host Colin Gorrie as we read the great Old English epic poem Beowulf together, as part of the Reading Beowulf series. In this session, we'll talk about Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother. We'll also examine the different choices translators have made in translating Beowulf: verse or prose? archaic or modern? strange or familiar? Reading…
Visual artist turned medical educator Alexa Miller will host this salon centering experiences with visual art as a catalyst for expansion, innovation, connection, bias awareness, and shameless enjoyment. The topic of this Salon, the third in our 6-part series, is Works Made in Secret. We'll engage with a selection of works of art that artists made and,…
In this salon, Daniel Golliher examines the lessons that these two twentieth century thinkers offer for those of us hurtling through the twenty-first. This salon is the third of three in a mini-series comparing the thinkers Ayn Rand and Hannah Arendt. And hurtling we are. This ride is not slowing down—it’s faster and weirder from…
Tech emotionographer Pamela Pavliscak hosts an 8-month Interintellect Salon series while writing her new book #Feels: How Technology is Changing Our Emotional Life for the Better. Have you ever wondered why we feel compelled to note and name every new variation of sadness online? Or what you call that emotional hangover you can get after scrolling social…
Join Isabela Granic and her co-host, Amir Hajizamani as we consider radical economic and social transformations developing across the globe, and their impact on how we think about, show up for, and re-design, our work-lives. In this second salon in the Our Hybrid Lives series, we'll focus on how workplaces across corporate, academia, creative, tech,…
